Server Keeps rebooting

[Lee Walters_1]

Martin

I have to say a big thank you. Your offerings have worked. The machine is back up again and the fault light is off. It's still not on the network and the following errors are now being seen on reboot

msgcnt 54 vxfs: mesg 016: vx_ilisterr - / file system error reading inode 1825
msgcnt 55 vxfs: mesg 016: vx_ilisterr - / file system error reading inode 1825
msgcnt 56 vxfs: mesg 016: vx_ilisterr - / file system error reading inode 1825
msgcnt 57 vxfs: mesg 016: vx_ilisterr - / file system error reading inode 1825

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id:samd "/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon"

#
#

I'm guessing this is an error on reading the disk?

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Lee,
Does the slot matche with the address of your hardware?
Because this is strange:
Initialization finished successfully... slot is 9
Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT
Logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as SWAP
Logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as DUMP
64 means you are on LVM but 0x3 is this true? or should I read 0x3 inwhich case it could be correct
But I/O error on metadata plus read failure isnt good...
How did you backup the system?

All the best
Victor

[Lee Walters_1]

Victor

I have no idea. Like I said I'm new to HP-UX and so I couldn't tell you.

If the I/O read error is bad then maybe I'll just get a new disk and start from scratch on the machine.

Best course of action ?

[martin_215]

iguess there some error in inittab which brings that command responding too rapidly error

it may also be caused by root and var mounted as readonly which causes init to report error

do a remount of root and /var with readwrite and do init q

[martin_215]

inode read error could be caused by bad disk block or superblock error
may be you will have to do an fsck and reboot -n
did u do reboot -n after u did the fsck previous time
or else it will flush memory to disk

[Lee Walters_1]

Well, I've done a reboot -n after the fsck and still the same I/O error on the / File system on an inode.

So I'm guessing that the disk is dead in some way. I'm going to be calling my HP engineer this morning so I guess all that is left is to say thank you both for your help.

[martin_215]

Its quite strange that both disks goes bad at the same inode
since you have mirrored volume

I still believe bad disk media is unlikely

ofcourse reinstalling would fix it
but I belive it is still something wrong with the filesystem.
where you doing some sort of filesystem metadata operation like extending filesystem,extending volume etc etc when this power outage occured
you neednt have to reply to this

just post what fixed the problem and please do assign points.

[Rachid Jarouy_1]

Hi Lee,
I Want to be sure if you don't have problem with Hardware (GSP it self my be faulty)did you replace it ? this can hapen after power failure !!!!

[Lee Walters_1]

Martin,

The disk's are not mirrored at all. They are two stand alone disks acting as seperate volumes.

I've telephoned my local engineer and he's comming in tomorrow to have a look and if need be replace the disks and re-install the OS for me.

I'll let you know the outcome.

[Lee Walters_1]

Engineer came - Disk was dead so he's replaced it and re-installed the OS. Trouble is now, he wasn't that great with HP-UX.

I now can't get my CDE running on a remote machine.

Any pointers or shall I start a new topic?